24/02/2022 20:20, Ajit Khaparde: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 3:07 AM Raslan Darawsheh <rasl...@nvidia.com> wrote: > > > > ++ adding more people here, > > > > From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > > > 24/02/2022 10:26, Raslan Darawsheh: > > > > This adds the syntax for E-Switch to have check on how it suppose to > > > > be for commits > > > [...] > > > > +E-Switch > > > > > > It looks Mellanox people use this syntax in Linux kernel as well. > > > Where does it come from? Is it a Mellanox-only wording? > > I think it was coined around the time when Mellanox submitted the > kernel driver patchset in 2015. > https://lwn.net/Articles/666180/ > > I think it has become a fairly used term since that time. > > > > > > I don't think it's a Mellanox only wording see the following: > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/devlink/devlink-port.html?#devlink-port > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/switchdev.html > > > > > Intuitively, I would have written it eSwitch generally. > > I would go with E-Switch > > > It means "embedded switch", right? > > In kernel, it's Ethernet Switch device. > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/switchdev.html
Forgotten and Applied (very late), thanks.
